dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/gay_MWT.json
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{
"gay":{
"having much high-spirited energy and movement":{
"examples":[
"couples dancing a gay , fast-paced jig"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"airy",
"animate",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"brisk",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"jazzy",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"mettlesome",
"peppy",
"perky",
"pert",
"pizzazzy",
"pizazzy",
"racy",
"snappy",
"spanking",
"sparky",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dapper",
"dashing",
"spiffy",
"agog",
"alert",
"awake",
"open-eyed",
"up",
"wide-awake",
"agile",
"nimble",
"spry",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"cheerful",
"chipper",
"chirpy",
"chirrupy",
"effervescent",
"sparkly",
"upbeat",
"eager",
"enthusiastic",
"keen",
"frolicsome",
"impish",
"pixieish",
"playful",
"boisterous",
"bubbly",
"ebullient",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"high-strung",
"nervous",
"skittish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolent",
"lazy",
"unambitious",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"sleepy",
"sluggish",
"tired",
"torpid",
"weary",
"apathetic",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stolid",
"boring",
"dull",
"irksome",
"tedious"
],
"antonyms":[
"dead",
"inactive",
"inanimate",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languishing",
"languorous",
"leaden",
"lifeless",
"limp",
"listless",
"spiritless",
"vapid"
]
},
"having or showing freedom from worries or trouble":{
"examples":[
"a gay , thoughtless girl who didn't care whether her work was done or not"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"carefree",
"debonair",
"devil-may-care",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome",
"slaphappy",
"unconcerned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"breezy",
"cavalier",
"nonchalant",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"low-pressure",
"relaxed",
"unfussy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"somber",
"sombre",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"wary",
"anxious",
"concerned",
"upset",
"worried",
"long-suffering",
"overburdened",
"sorrowful"
],
"antonyms":[
"careworn"
]
},
"indicative of or marked by high spirits or good humor":{
"examples":[
"had a gay old time at the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"festive",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"sunny"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amused",
"beaming",
"chuckling",
"giggling",
"smiling",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"carefree",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome",
"upbeat",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"blessed",
"blest",
"blissful",
"delighted",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"gladsome",
"happy",
"high",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"overjoyed",
"radiant",
"rapturous",
"ravished",
"thrilled",
"tickled",
"amusing",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"frolicsome",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"jesting",
"joking",
"joshing",
"playful",
"sportive",
"witty",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"unconcerned",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"farcical",
"humorous",
"riotous",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abject",
"aggrieved",
"anguished",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"glum",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"heavyhearted",
"low-spirited",
"melancholy",
"sad",
"saddened",
"sorrowful",
"unhappy",
"crying",
"groaning",
"moaning",
"sobbing",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"discontented",
"disgruntled",
"moody",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorry",
"woeful",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"miserable",
"woebegone",
"wretched",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having or showing a good mood or disposition":{
"examples":[
"with a gay toss of his coat over his shoulder, the dapper old gentleman set off for the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"bright",
"buoyant",
"canty",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"eupeptic",
"gladsome",
"lightsome",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"winsome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"animated",
"chirpy",
"jaunty",
"lilting",
"lively",
"perky",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"carefree",
"careless",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned",
"boon",
"gleeful",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"blissful",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gratified",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"tickled",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"joyless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"unsatisfied",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"down",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"droopy",
"forlorn",
"hangdog",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sorrowful"
],
"antonyms":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sulky",
"sullen"
]
},
"serving to lift one's spirits":{
"examples":[
"the skylark's gay song lifted me out of my gloom"
],
"synonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"glad"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gladdening",
"heartening",
"heartwarming",
"gleaming",
"radiant",
"sparkling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"lackluster",
"lusterless",
"black",
"desolate",
"dispiriting"
],
"antonyms":[
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"dark",
"depressing",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"gray",
"grey"
]
},
"joyously unrestrained":{
"examples":[
"it was the era of the flappers, and young women were gay , bold, and defiant of convention"
],
"synonyms":[
"bouncy",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"crank",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"frolic",
"frolicsome",
"gamesome",
"high-spirited",
"vivacious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"outgoing",
"uninhibited",
"carefree",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"joyful",
"lighthearted",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"boisterous",
"raucous",
"rollicking",
"rowdy",
"giddy",
"light-headed",
"overexuberant",
"silly",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"lyric",
"rapturous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brazen",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"saucy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constrained",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"dour",
"glum",
"morose",
"surly"
],
"antonyms":[
"low-spirited",
"sullen"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"gayness":{
"a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter":{
"examples":[
"the melancholy-tinged gayness of college-bound friends on their last fling together before going their separate ways"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"festivity",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
"merriment",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frivolity",
"levity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"brightness",
"buoyancy",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"humor",
"sunniness",
"gamesomeness",
"insouciance",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"buffoonery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"funning",
"jest",
"jesting",
"jocoseness",
"jocosity",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"animation",
"giddiness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"perkiness",
"vivacity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"rejoicing",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"forlornness",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"bile",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"sourness",
"spleen",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"grimness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobersidedness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"discontent",
"disgruntlement",
"moodiness",
"dolefulness",
"dolorousness",
"joylessness",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blackness",
"darkness",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"heartbreak",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mourning",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gayety":{
"dressy clothing":{
"examples":[
"attendees of the masquerade ball arrived dressed in all their gaiety"
],
"synonyms":[
"array",
"best",
"bravery",
"caparison",
"feather",
"finery",
"frippery",
"full dress",
"glad rags",
"regalia"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"attire",
"costume",
"duds",
"habiliment(s)",
"rags",
"raiment",
"rig",
"rigging",
"threads",
"toggery",
"togs",
"vestiary",
"vesture",
"wear"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tatters",
"disarray",
"dishabille"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"joyful or festive activity":{
"examples":[
"loved the gaiety of the annual harvest festival",
"the gaiety of the wedding reception"
],
"synonyms":[
"conviviality",
"festivity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"rejoicing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"whoopee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carousal",
"carouse",
"delight",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"fun",
"mischief",
"pleasure",
"recreation",
"riot",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"joviality",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"carnival",
"celebration",
"festival",
"party",
"revel",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"enjoyment",
"happiness",
"joy",
"binge",
"fling",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"rollick",
"romp",
"spree",
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"funning",
"jesting",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"levity",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"zaniness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"darkness",
"dolefulness",
"dolor",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"heartsickness",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mournfulness",
"mourning",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter":{
"examples":[
"the gaiety of children enjoying an outing at an amusement park"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"festivity",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
"merriment",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frivolity",
"levity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"brightness",
"buoyancy",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"humor",
"sunniness",
"gamesomeness",
"insouciance",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"buffoonery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"funning",
"jest",
"jesting",
"jocoseness",
"jocosity",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"animation",
"giddiness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"perkiness",
"vivacity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"rejoicing",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"forlornness",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"bile",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"sourness",
"spleen",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"grimness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobersidedness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"discontent",
"disgruntlement",
"moodiness",
"dolefulness",
"dolorousness",
"joylessness",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blackness",
"darkness",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"heartbreak",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mourning",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"gayly":{
"in a cheerful or happy manner":{
"examples":[
"we sat around the table, gaily teasing each other and laughing about the good old days"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightly",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"happily",
"heartily",
"jocosely",
"jovially",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"smilingly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusedly",
"exuberantly",
"giddily",
"gigglingly",
"joyfully",
"joyously",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"breezily",
"gladly",
"gladsomely",
"laughingly",
"lightheartedly",
"sunnily",
"amicably",
"friendlily",
"friendly",
"good-humoredly",
"good-naturedly",
"jocularly",
"hopefully",
"optimistically",
"sanguinely",
"blissfully",
"elatedly",
"euphorically",
"rapturously"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abjectly",
"dejectedly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"wretchedly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"forlornly",
"mournfully",
"plaintively",
"sorrowfully",
"dourly",
"glumly",
"mirthlessly",
"sourly",
"sternly",
"sulkily",
"sullenly",
"blackly",
"dismally",
"drearily",
"gloomily",
"pessimistically"
],
"antonyms":[
"bleakly",
"cheerlessly",
"darkly",
"heavily",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"unhappily"
]
},
"in a quick and spirited manner":{
"examples":[
"children gaily running to the buses on the last day of school"
],
"synonyms":[
"airily",
"animatedly",
"animately",
"bouncily",
"buoyantly",
"high-spiritedly",
"livelily",
"lively",
"perkily",
"pertly",
"snappily",
"sparkily",
"spiritedly",
"sprightly",
"trippingly",
"vivaciously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"friskily",
"gamesomely",
"playfully",
"skittishly",
"sportively",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"effervescently",
"energetically",
"jazzily",
"racily",
"springily",
"breezily",
"cockily",
"dapperly",
"dashingly",
"jauntily",
"agilely",
"nimbly",
"spryly",
"allegro"
],
"near antonyms":[
"halfheartedly",
"idly",
"indolently",
"lazily",
"lethargically",
"slothfully",
"heavily",
"inactively",
"listlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[
"dully",
"inanimately",
"sluggishly",
"tardily"
]
},
"in a manner that is colorful and tends to arouse gaiety":{
"examples":[
"the Mexican dancers were gaily dressed in lavish, bright costumes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bravely",
"brightly",
"brilliantly",
"colorfully"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flamboyantly",
"flashily",
"garishly",
"gaudily",
"loud",
"loudly",
"ostentatiously",
"fancily",
"ornately",
"swankily",
"gorgeously",
"richly",
"spectacularly",
"splendidly",
"strikingly",
"dapperly",
"dashingly",
"gallantly",
"jazzily",
"nattily",
"neatly",
"pertly",
"smartly",
"snappily",
"spiffily",
"conspicuously",
"luridly",
"shockingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colorlessly",
"inconspicuously",
"unobtrusively",
"unpretentiously",
"chastely",
"demurely",
"modestly",
"conservatively",
"plainly",
"quietly",
"simply",
"bleakly",
"severely",
"somberly"
],
"antonyms":[
"boringly",
"drably",
"dully"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
}
}